They could have never found a better more genuine authentic gracious and humble man to play the part of Almonzo…. He is truly a gem and it shows all the more in this interview! What a gentlemen he was and is!! 💙

I just loved Dean Butler as Almanzo - he was just the perfect choice, because he was and is so cute. In this interview he comes across as being absolutely charming.

Dean Butler is a very handsome man. I watched Little House just to look at him!

What a charming man! He has a lovely smile.

The greatest family show ever made that gave me values and life lessons cherished for life. I began to watch at age seven. I had huge crush on Almanzo and his good looks melted young girls hearts. The match between Laura and Almanzo seemed so authentic & real and can still get emotional /cry watching scenes. The legacy left behind by little house will remain forever on film for future generations to inspire and educate. My daughter now watching little house and the values she learns are timeles

Dean Butler is Handsome❤️ I Love Little House on the Prairie and all the actors and actresses in the show.❤️

Laura and Almanzo's love story reminds me of mine and my husband's love story. I met my husband when I was 16 and he was 7 years older than me. He thought I was a sweet kid until I got to be 18 then things changed. He started seeing me as a woman and not a girl. We got married in 1977 when I was 19 and we are still together after 43 years.

I love this! Dean Butler is so cute and he and Melissa Gilbert as Almanzo and Laura were wonderful. Thank you for sharing these interviews!

What's really cool about Dean Butler is that he has done so much work for the real Almanzo Wilder's childhood home to keep it going as a historical site. He's a very cool person and so charming! Also, the show pronounced the name wrong. It should have been AlMANzo instead of AlMONzo.

Manley was/ is so handsome and perfectly cast by Michael Landon.

He's still every bit as charming as he was during the series.

Hi absolutely loved Little House on the Prairie from the minute it came out. I’m now in my mid 50s and I’ve been binge watching it on FreeVee. It brings back so many good memories and it was such a high-quality show.

He looks more attractive in the interview than in his youth.

Yes, the real Almanzo was 10 years her senior. Again once more Dean Butler portrayed the role of Almanzo so touch ful. Made my favorite actor.

Superb casting. He did such a great job with the character and what a class act. That really added to their good fortune.

I remember going to bed dreaming about Almanzo when I was a little girl.. 😘😘😘😁😁😁😁😁 And I still love his character even until this day!!👍👍😄😄

I like Dean Butler, he’s a very good actor! Thanks for this interview!

Love How Almonzo was Laura's Love 😍 and How the show began to see how they began seeing Almonzo and Laura's Life Began to fall in love 😍 with Almonzo in the show

What a BEAUTIFUL courtship !!!! A JOY to watch it evolve ! 👏👏👏👏👏 NZ

I loved the chemistry between the two.. loved their sweet relationship...

I think Dean was very sensible to be wary of portraying a romantic/sexual relationship with Melissa's character, Laura. Although a 14 year old and 22 year old would have been allowed to start pairing up in the 1870s (girls were often married off around their 16th birthdays, especially in rural communities) this was filmed in the late 1970s so was dealing with a late 20th century audience in a society(America) which would regard a man having a relationship with any girl before her 18th birthday as highly dubious to say the least! I think they pitched the tone about right, especially as Melissa/Laura looked very young for her actual age anyway so the age gap appeared far more than 8 years.

Loved this. Loved Almonzo. Love Little House.

i have watched this interview more than 50 times already, though i know what Dean

dean is so great! i love these interviews. and that announcer-what a voice!

What a nice guy!!!

I was 18 when I met my future husband, and he was 26. We married when I was 21 and he was 29. We have been married 38 years, we had nine children together, and we have six grandchildren so far. ❤

why all the fuss?! Just look at Nellie with Percival. There was also a 10 year difference between them. Both couples handled it with grace and respect.

Dean is such a sweet man. I admit, I didn't think he was good looking as Almanzo. I thought he looked dorky. But I think he's actually better-looking now. Aging proved to be a good thing for him. In real life, Laura was 18 when she married Almanzo, who was 28.

Dear Mr. Butler: I know this interview is several years old, but thank for the dignity you gave to that scene

Dean Butler, such a good actor. His portrayal of Almanzo made LHOTP my favorite show

I luv ,luv ,luv little house I to this day watch it everyday for hours lol🤗

Little House on the Prairie was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid and still is well into my 50’s Dean Butler was one of my favorites on the show. Big shout out to Melissa Sue Anderson who played Mary and Dean Butler who played Almonzo Wilder aka Manly aka ZelZomo lol 😂 We love you Melissa!!

Love you Dean!!❤

He seems like such a nice person.

Love this Show

I remember watching this with my grandmother all the time. When she dressed as an adult woman going off to teach school my grandmother said, "Look at him! He knows she isn't half pint anymore. She is the whole gallon."

Superb acting, fantastic show, thank you xx

He is still so good looking in this video.

Dean Butter brought this guy to life... I remember the books and the drawings... he nailed it! It’s rare when an actor captures a mental image so well. I can think of only a handful of examples; Tommy Lee Jones, for instance, captured Gary Gilmore to the life in the movie adaptation of The Executioner’s Song . By far the screen fails to capture my expectations set up by my imagination once I read the book... Dean Butter was an uncanny exception for me at least in his portrayal of James Almanzo Wilder

For those who were speculating if that was Melissa Gilbert's first kiss, yes, it was. Saw a Little House reunion bit on the Today show last yr, and she and Dean said it was her first kiss, and for some reason her mother (actress Barbara Crane) was on set, crying audibly, so it had to be reshot a few times.

It's Almanzo! :D *giggles*

I had a crush on manly, Manly and Beth were the perfect couple

Love this show

I absolutely love Dean! What a class act

Revisiting this show as an adult this last year really hit me to how good it was and how much I seem to remember with just a little prodding episode to episode. Great casting but these two drove me and each other and Charles crazy with their back and forth stubbornness. Just saw the episode that reminded me of what Eliza had to do to get these two hard heads (mostly Almanzo) together finally. So different than the Mary and Adam arc. Mary seemed older at 13 than Laura did at 16. Many actors on the show talk about keeping it not so gritty or real but I have to say there is plenty of heartbreak and pain delivered in this show as it was. So well done. I guess I was always a fan and just reminding myself. Great show.

Aún sigue siendo hermoso 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

omg omg omg i loved hearing haha,but dang just think of the things parents let their kids do in movies now,an they threw such a fit over small kisses haha..oh the moralas have fallen so far sense.

The season after Laura and Manly got married they for sure tried to make her appear older. Suddenly her hair was even more different, she was wearing makeup, etc. She looked so pretty either way. And she had the longest pregnancy in the shows history lol. It lasted almost two seasons lol. Caroline had grace in about one episode. Mary seemed to suddenly have a baby in about an episode or two (who died in the fire). I remember thinking"did they forget Laura was pregnant?" But finally in the next session she started to show :-)

He's so much more attractive here in the interview than back then in the show. A gentle, funny, intelligent and considerate man.

I am the same age as Dean Butler. I remember very well seeing him for the first time on LHOTP. I was as love-struck as Laura when she saw Almanzo for the first time. Dean Butler injected new vitality to the show. Big responsibility and he handled it very well. I like him not just because he was and is gorgeous, but because he is very articulate and humorous and intelligent, comes across as a very nice person. Miss him not acting (he is a very good actor) but glad he is so involved with LHOTP personal appearances etc and carrying the legacy forward. Coincidentally, in 1972 I saw his future wife Katherine Cannon acting on location in the little town next to mine. She was Kurt Russell's love interest in Fool's Parade.

Dean Butler is a handsome guy. I forgot he never had the cinnamon chicken. Melissa Gilbert should make him some. This was a great interview.

Thanks For Uploading This Video Melissa Sue Anderson Fan...........................

Every young girl was in love with almonzo and dean lol . I just two months ago purchased the box set . I’ve watched every episode . The most brutal gut wrenching episode was them losing the baby. Both of them did a great job. Wonderful and thank you Michael for perfectly. Matching Melissa and dean. May 2020 from Sydney Australia xoxo

La serie más hermosa de mi vida

Almonzo and Laura were perfectly happy together

I as well had a little crush on almanzo. Dean Butler seems like a really nice Man in real life, however if I was an actress, or just to ever meet him walking down the street, I think I would be so afraid. He appears to be very confident and not shy in any way. I blush just watching this interview. 😂 😂

Now I want cinnamon chicken.

According to Melissa Gilbert, that on set kiss was indeed her first real kiss. She asked Michael Landon if they could just hug instead because she was very nervous and her mother made things worse.

What a fabulous interview, I could have listened for hours!!! ❤️

Almonzo is So Awesome

È bellissimo ♥️

Comment by Joey Rubin is actually his mother. We share 2 accounts on KZfaq and used his accidentally. For viewers reading this it is a woman who left comments not a man.

Absolutely love Dean....aka Almanzo❤

A lovely guy dean a great talented man 😁🇨🇦🇨🇦

Great atores dean butler

When he makes that coy under-the-brow glance with his head tilted down to the side he reminds me of Princess Diana-6:36

Its Zaldamo.

Hilarious how he twists his head like don't you bullshit me modern media what're you trying to get at

Such a beautiful show with the most precious characters/actors 😁❤️❤️

All seasons now available on Amazon Prime Video!!!!!!!

He kissed her on her forehead for luck for her teachers' test. Then the circus episode she gives him a quick lip kiss. Lastly they kiss as a couple at the church social

Me encantaría ver todos lo capitulos desde k se conocieran Laura y Almanzo por fabor bajarlos ,gracias

What these people complaining about the age difference between Dean and Melissa don't realize that the real Laura and Almanzo was 10 years so the age difference between these actors was very accurate for the time

I always loved watching little house on the prairie. Dean Butler was a good choice for playing Laura's husband.

Always been crazy about him

There is still a part of me that wanted Melissa and Dean to hook up in real life….. I wanted to believe that Laura and Almanzo’s love story was the same for Melissa and Dean. But it wasn’t. She would have been Melissa Gilbert Butler

I grew up thinking I was going to marry ALMANZO WILDER!!

Laura was a really cute little girl on little house I really love her

❤️❤️❤️

Many parallels between her story and my own gmas life story she wrote of early 20th (and mid) c. life in both Cherokee, Iowa & absarokee, Mt just as surely would be the case with the majority of Americans own families from those times right down to those of "the Brady bunch" (like how many of our families didn't make cinnamon rolls for ex)

Oo handsome❤

At that time I wouldn’t have minded him being my first kiss !

Dea Butler is one of the most humble characters in Hollywood, as for the relationship between Wilder and Ingles, people forget that this was the 1880s, it was normal for girls as young as 14 to go out with older men. Moreover, aren't they trying to portray a true story of history?

I wish someone would ask Melissa if that was her first kiss.

He still looks the same very handsome

i could not have imagined being 22, and having to kiss a 14 or 15 year old...

Oh wow no pressure to get the kiss proper and "right".

Didn't anyone read up on the Life of the real Laura Ingalls Wilder? The real Almanzo Wilder was much older than the Real Laura Ingalls!!!!

what year was this interview?

Dean (Almonzo) had the cities of smiles and those sexy eyes and great body.Woukd love to meet this guy some time soon.Before we all get to old.

He was so cute w melisa gilbert

Pazzamente innamorata di Almanzo ❤️

I can’t believe people complained about the Laura/Almonzo relationship. THESE WERE REAL PEOPLE. In those days, it was normal. This was about her ACTUAL LIFE and her ACTUAL husband. Does no one actually know Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real person? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Do you have any interviews with Linwood Boomer?

Dommage pas de traduction vraiment

In real life pa was in favour of the relationship and almonzo asked her pa s permission to court her .not the other way around in real life he was very handsome man and yes he was 10 years older they were married for I believe 60 years

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Who was upset with Laura and Almanzo?! Heads up not a plot line...it was real life!

If I got the chance to kiss him, there wouldn't be any acting about it - it would be the real deal, baby 'cause I admittedly have a huge crush on Almanzo and he is looking like a snack!! LOLLLLL 🤭🤪🤤

I think that wasn't her first kiss at all....she dated with rob lowe at that time